I was recently interviewed by Colette Sheridan for The Cork Evening Echo about my life on and off stage and particularly my role as Lana Lavelle in Elvis Is My Daddy.
I was recently interviewed by Colette Sheridan for The Cork Evening Echo about my life on and off stage and particularly my role as Lana Lavelle in Elvis Is My Daddy.
Had such fun at the photo shoot for the interview in May’s edition of Country Magazine.
Another photo from our morning at The Olympia – What a good job there wasn’t a fire as we were all completely oblivious to those signs!
Myself and the girls couldn’t resist having a little photo taken once we were inside and on the stage of the beautiful Olympia Theatre.
Playing the Diva – rehearsing Lana’s lines with one of my stage daughters Elaine Hearty aka Bette Davis-Lavelle, for our week in Cork and 2 weeks in Dublin.
Myself and my beautiful stage daughter Clelia Murphy aka Lulabelle Lavelle appeared on the Ray D’Arcy show on Saturday 16th April to chat about the show – we had a wonderful time.
Back from our amazing tour of Australia & New Zealand and it’s off with the hairnet and on with the sequins. I was interviewed on Cork C103 about the start of Elvis Is My Daddy’s run at Everyman Cork.
Click the link to have a listen Cork C103 interview
“I’m feeding the baby love”
I’ve stepped into the 21st Century and become a podcaster!
Myself and the lovely Mary Byrne have been sitting around my kitchen table, chewing the fat and putting the world to rights. We’d love you to join us during our little tete a tete. Click the link below and have a listen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Well it’s October, so that means only one thing – Glasgow! We have been recording this years Christmas and New Year episodes. It was lovely to see everyone again and to don the curlers and hairnet once more!
We’ve all heard of the non-stop tour. Well, you know – it’s good to be a little bit different – so in December I’m going to be doing a ONE stop tour. I will be at The Viking Theatre at The Sheds in Clontarf, with my one woman show Live Love Laugh. I’ll be there Tuesday 5th Dec – Saturday 9th Dec & Tuesday 12th December – Saturday 16th Dec Come on down! (as somebody used to say). Tickets are available from www.vikingtheatredublin.com or 087 1129970
Well we’re delighted to be back touring with Mrs Brown Rides Again, We’ve already played Glasgow & Manchester and next on the list are Hull, Wolverhampton, Sunderland & Blackpool.
I’ll be touring with my one woman show this September, you can catch me at Birr Theatre & Arts Centre, Townhall Theatre Galway and Venue Theatre Ratoath – It would be lovely to see you!
Due to the whole uncertainty around Covid, it was necessary to reschedule ‘Live Love Laugh’ for Rathoath, Galway and Ballymaloe Cork. New dates for 2022 had to be agreed. Can I also take this opportunity to thank everyone who came to the show in Portlaoise, Naas, Waterford, and the Pavilion Dublin.
If you are lucky enough to get Channel 5 this series is so worth watching. You never know who you might recognise!!!!
Don’t miss our live spooky spectacular on Friday 29th October! 9:30pm on BBC & RTE
I’ll be on the 6 o’clock show I’m looking forward to being back there, tune in if you can 🙂
I’ll be appearing on The Ray D’arcy Show on Saturday 6th October, adding my voice to a campaign close to my heart.
Thursday 23rd November will see Good Mourning Mrs Brown open at The fabulous Liverpool Echo Arena. I love Liverpool, we’re always assured of a lovely welcome and fantastic audiences.
Our 2017 UK & Ireland tour began on Thursday 23rd March at The Pavilion Theatre in Rhyl, North Wales – we were all raring to get back on stage. We had a wonderful reception from the Welsh crowd and we now move on to Glasgow, Birmingham & Manchester. I hope I’ll meet as many of you as I can at the post performance “meet & greets”.
Friday 3rd March:
I had a lovely little chinwag with Paul Ross on Friday morning on his breakfast show on Talk Radio. Click the link to hear the interview.
The last show of my 2016 Live Love Laugh tour is coming up on Saturday 22nd November at the fabulous Everyman – Cork. Performing in my home city is such a delight, I really can’t wait – see you all there.
Well that’s the Christmas Special done and dusted, and as always you’re going to love it. We’re now in rehearsals for the New Year Special, and will be recording on Thursday.
Back in Glasgow for rehearsals and recordings of the Christmas & New Year specials, feels just like coming home. Glasgow has been so good to us.
I had a lovely morning with Anton Savage on Today FM discussing MBB, Live Love Laugh, The Festival of Women and teetotal beer sellers! And more!
You can listen to it here.
What an amazing response to The Live broadcast of Mrs Brown’s Boys on RTE One & BBC One. It was great to be back in the studio with the gang, and we had such a lot of fun making this episode. Thank you for all the support, and thank you for watching – the statistics say it was around 11 million viewers across the UK & Ireland.
So, my sequinned dresses and dancing shoes have been stored away for a while and I’ll be donning my hair net, curlers and pop socks again in July as Mrs Brown’s Boys broadcasts LIVE from BBC Scotland….who knows what Agnes will get up too!
I feel honored to have been asked to be MC for the eagerly anticipated ‘Hooley in the Hall’, a charity bash taking place in the County Hall (Cork) on Friday, June 17 to mark the end of Cllr John Paul O’Shea’s term as county mayor. Really looking forward to it.
Well after a fabulous week in Cork, we arrived here at the fabulous Olympia Theatre, We’re having such fun with the audiences – this is such a feel good show and it’s just brilliant to see everyone singing, clapping and dancing along – Lana is thrilled dahlings!
The time is almost upon us – on Tuesday 3rd May we open at Everyman Cork for 5 nights of sing a long, toe tapping fun and laughter in John Murphy’s wonderful musical/comedy/drama. Tickets are available at The Everyman, Ticketmaster, www.elvisismydaddy.com and our Facebook page. A fabulous night is guaranteed!
I appeared with Martin & Lucy on Tuesday night’s Seven o’clock show, we chatted about Mrs Brown’s Boy’s Australia & New Zealand tour, cooking, Elvis Is My Daddy, oh…. and peeing in a bucket in a dressing room – the glamour of showbusiness! The lovely Gwen Taylor was also on the show.
Well we sold out The Civic Theatre, Tallaght on 4th & 5th November. Our audiences have been up on their feet singing and dancing, and have left the theatres with smiles on their faces – just as we wanted! Catch Elvis Is My Daddy at The Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork Tues 3rd – Sat 7th May 2016 and at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin 11th – 14th & 18th -21st May.
Below is a shot of me as the wonderful Lana Lavelle!
Live Love Laugh had it’s final performance of 2015 tonight at Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge Co. Kildare, and another sell out – what a great way to end the tour!
On Friday 23rd October at 4:10 pm I appeared on RTE One’s Today show with Maura Derrane and Daithí Ó Sé.
We we’re back on tour in November/December in Liverpool, Sheffield, Belfast & Dublin.
Elvis Is My Daddy returned for a week long run at The Dolmen Theatre in Cornelscourt, Dublin 18. We played 6 nights to full houses each night and we had such an amazing reaction to the show, thank you to all of you who came to see us.
Wow, I can’t believe we’re at the end of the second leg of the UK tour – Newcastle, Cardiff, Leeds, Nottingham & the fabulous 02 Arena in London all completed. We take a summer break, but will be back in September with the live DVD and Christmas recordings.
Live Love Laugh made it’s UK debut Brushford Parish Hall, Brushford, nr Dulverton Somerset, UK
Glasgow Hydro & Manchester Phones 4 U Arena
So that’s the end of the Live Love Laugh 2014/15 Irish tour – thank you Dun Laoghaire, nice to finish on a high. Thank you to all the family and friends who came to support me throughout the tour, and the members of my Official Facebook fan club who came to Dun Laoghaire for the final show. No time to put my feet up though, on with the pop socks and in with the curlers – Mrs Brown’s Boys is back on the road around the UK with “How Now Mrs Brown Cow”. I hope to see some of you on our travels.
Rhyl Pavilion, Birmingham Genting Arena and Glasgow Hydro
Just completed shows in Derry, Letterkenny, Galway and Kerry, 4 more left on this years tour, Wexford, Waterford, & Cork
Back on the road again with my show Live Love Laugh – full details of the tour can be found on the Live Love Laugh tab, but in short I played, Dublin, Derry, Letterkenny, Galway, Tralee, Waterford, Wexford, Cork and Dun Laoghaire throughout January – March.
I did an interview for RTE One’s Nationwide programme with Mary Kennedy at my home in West Cork.
On the road with Live love Laugh, Headford Hall – Co. Galway, Macroom Co. Cork & Athlone Co. Westmeath.
We returned to BBC Scotland the recording of two new Christmas Specials. I think you will love the episodes, we had so much fun making them.
June saw the World Premiere of D’Movie! Despite the dreadful weather, we had a wonderful welcome home in Dublin when we arrived for the screening at The Savoy Cinema.
Well our first Australian tour is over. We had an amazing time and met some absolutely wonderful people. I loved Australia and would love to go back and see more of it. We were treated like rock stars and it is no exaggeration to say that Australia LOVES Agnes Brown!
The new year started brilliantly, Mrs Brown’s Boys won Best Comedy at The National television Awards. I was interviewed on RTÉ radio by Miriam O’Sullivan, and was a guest The Today Show on RTE1 tv.
The tour continued in Sheffield and then appropriately finished in our home town of Dublin at the amazing O2.
Mrs. Brown went back on tour in Belfast & Liverpool.
Mrs. Brown ‘D’ The Movie. Started filming in Dublin early September and finished end of October and what fun we had. Can’t wait to see it on the big screen. The UK release date is 27th June.
I performed my one-woman show, Live Love Laugh, to more than 3000 people during the Edinburgh Festival. What an experience. Enjoyed every minute and got some great reviews.
My third Grandson, Thomas arrived on the 14th July weighing in at 8lbs.